තාලකගේ සටහන් (Thaalakaz)

How to Create a Simple

phoneGap Application using PhonGap Build

Before all the things we need to create a “PhoneGap Build” account for free. To do that first go to the https://build.phonegap.com/ website. Scroll down (Don’t forget to read the content of the site as it contains many useful information for beginners like us) you will find a place which says, “Choose your plan”.

Select your plan and continue. In my case I will continue with free plan. It will bring you to a window like below.

Give your email, password and sign in to the account. Then you will get the below window.

Click on the blue color button “+new app”

Here you have to select whether you are going to create an open-source application or a private application. As you saw earlier, free account can only create 1 private application. But it will allow you to create unlimited number of open-source applications. Here for more convenience, I have select the open-source application.

Before filling this part you have to do lot more. Let’s see how we should create a simple application. First I have created a simple web application (Using JQuery mobile).

index.html file

config.xml file

Don’t forget to add config.xml file to your “git” repository, below you can see a simple config.xml file structure. You can modify it according to your application. There is a commented line in 22, 23, and 24. When you try to build “advanced applications” using PhoneGap build, you may need to access camera, microphones and local storage etc. So there are several plugins to help you, and the commented lines display where and how we should add plugins to our application.

After you open the index.html in the browser right click on your web page and go to “inspect element” then go to the emulation and select a device and emulate your web page. When I did that my application look like below.

Click on “reset” and you can leave the emulator. Now the big thing! .If you are going to create a privet app right click on your app folder (where you store your index.html file css and js folders) and make a “Zip” file of it. “Beware” not to create .rar. Then simply upload it into phoneGap build.

If you prefer to build your app public then follow the instructions given below;

1. Create a “git” repo

2. Add files to the “git” repo

3. In your “git” repo there is a place call HTTPs clone URL, just copy it to phoneGap build .

4. Then click “pull from git repo”

5. Then you may need to refresh your page

6. Click on “ready to build”.

Finally you will get above output and you can install the application using QR code or .apk(android) or .xap (windows).

If you wish to continue the developing you can go to settings and enable hydration. Then your application will update with respect to application changes. No need to install the application again and again.